"Inspired by Google Translate, a new AI may soon let us talk to dolphins. But once they understand us — what will they say?"
WOW? Can anyone predict the first comments from (or to) them?
SOURCE: HERE
"...the (tRump) administration and its ideological allies are erasing the accomplishments of Black service members from the nation’s military narrative. Units such as the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters; the Tuskegee Airmen; the Montford Point Marines; and the Buffalo Soldiers are no longer central to the story the military tells about itself. The Pentagon has erased countless photos, videos and articles about these units from its websites — although quickly restoring some, such as the Tuskegee Airmen, in response to an outcry."
(Source: The Washington Post HERE.)
This WAY early sci-fi film...1950...is interesting to watch now!
"Israel has killed at least 32 Palestinians waiting to get food at two aid distribution sites in Gaza, leaving more than 200 others injured.
Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 people, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.'
I'm sure you've followed the news from The Cullman County town of Hanceville....with the entire police department fired. The city council has also voted to
blah blah blah....
So all of this was going on in the little town (population 3,217) and Hanceville Mayor Jim Sawyer and city council members knew nothing?
The mayor says "The City of Hanceville remains focused on building a stronger future for our citizens, and we thank our community for its understanding and support as we move forward together."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
Workers removing the BLM memorial from the street near the White House.
“The world may go into weekend mode, but the war does not stop for weekends or weekdays. This cannot be ignored,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram Sunday. “Silence of America and others around the world only emboldens Putin.”
tRump????? Nothing???
Birmingham Water Works General Manager Mac Underwood
Then, would you do the Birmingham Water Works customers a favor and go back to your old job?
SOURCE: HERE.
"You will become officers in the greatest and most powerful Army the world has ever known," Mr. President (told West Point Graduates), "And I know because I rebuilt the Army and I rebuilt the military, and we rebuilt it like nobody had ever rebuilt it before."
Source: HERE
...and that should be enough evidence to send the draft doger to a dementia ward. (Preferably in Russia, since he likes Putin so much!)
At first glance, this view may look like a vista from a bluff in the southwestern United States.
But those aren't ordinary mountains in the distance. What appears to be a sierra is in fact the rim of an enormous crater on Mars, formed when an asteroid slammed into the Red Planet billions of years ago. The vantage point is from the slopes of the three-mile-tall Mount Sharp, sculpted over time within the crater after the ancient collision.
NASA's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a 30-second immersive video, which you can watch further down in this story.
SOURCE: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-panoramic-video
"Geoffrey Kabaservice, the vice president for political studies at the Niskanen Center, a center-left libertarian think tank, wrote by email:
Will the Trump presidency be as destructive as James Buchanan’s presidency, which led directly to the Civil War?
What I think we can say with confidence is that no president in living memory has attacked the sources of American strength and dynamism in the way that Trump already has done. In particular, his withdrawal from American global leadership and his sabotage of American scientific and technological pre-eminence — at precisely the moment we are vying with China for superiority in those areas — has no parallel."
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SOURCE: HERE.
Why it's so special: If you need an excuse to visit the Southern Hemisphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has just provided one. This spectacular new image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, showcases the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the biggest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.
This dense star field appears as a big, fuzzy patch in the night sky from anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere. Hubble's new view uses five filters to isolate different wavelengths of light, including ultraviolet and infrared light, which the human eye cannot see.
The result is a starry cloudscape of wispy gas that resembles multicolored cotton candy against a background of orange and blue stars. There's also a zoomable version available online.
The speaker, a student, was talking about efforts to unite St. Ambrose University, where this weeknight Mass was being held, with fellow Catholic university Mount Mercy.
Small religious schools in rural states are shutting down at an accelerating rate, a fate these two are attempting to avoid.
FULL story is HERE.
Spring Hill College in Mobile is one of the Religious Rural colleges trying to stay open.
Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, even called it “a license to kill Black people” because he said Black people are more likely to be shot or hurt by a police officer who makes a bad decision out of fear or racism.
“We don’t get the benefit of the doubt,” Smitherman said. “I don’t care what it is. Black folks don’t get the benefit of the doubt.”
Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, said it was already rare for police to be charged with crimes when they injure or kill someone through the use of force on their jobs.
“This is not about backing the blue because we all recognize the importance of law enforcement,” England said.
“But as a legislator, as government officials, we also have to represent the average citizen in that same situation.
“So we back the blue. But we also protect the individual rights of people to be from unconstitutional use of force.”
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Investigators, who did not identify the teenager, now 18, said they believed she had been sexually abused by her stepfather.
The family appears to have lived at their house on Ridge Avenue since 2017, according to property records. Since then, the only police calls to the home have been for barking dogs in the yard. But whenever the police arrived, Chief Harkins said, the couple quickly put the dogs inside.
No responding officers ever entered the house.
"... they pulled her out of elementary school with the excuse that she would be home-schooled.
FULL STORY HERE.
The last words in a column by Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times:
...Bidenworld’s gauzy alternate universe.
OUCH.
Read the entire column HERE.
On Friday, Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1. “Successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs,” it said as it changed its outlook on the US to “stable” from “negative”.
The Headline (via AL.COM):
